and either candidate. couple weeks ago you wrote an article, the gop s female trouble. you used metaphor, fossilized male dinosaurs. for our viewers who didn t get a chance to read the article, what was the pound and how maybe, if view has changed if at all? the point was illustrated in the debate this past week between governor romney and barack obama. the argument for most of this year barack obama has been hitting mitt romney on war on women, arguing he is a waging a war on women. trying to scare women voters what life would be like under a romney presidency. mitt romney for a long time has a way of dealing with this, you saw this in particular in the convention try to make himself more likeable, talk about how he was a good husband and good father and good things he had done for people. that wasn t necessarily working. the point of the column what you saw him do at debates this week instead make his policy arguments. to instead go out there,
inherent in both of these arguments, i think maybe the thing that ties the warren-style democrats to the clinton-style democrats is emerging in theme of sort of moral government and the idea the democrats are now taking the narrative of big government saying, big government isn t an albatross around your neck. it s the thing that weaves communities together. it is the thing that does, in fact, build business. it builds communities, builds roads. they re really owning it and coding it in an almost, i said it before, mutt moral language which is a very different we were talking about the gop basically punting on foreign policy during the rnr. now you have democrats wrapping their arms around defense and foreign policy and the moral argument inherent in their policy arguments. that s what government is all about. to us democrats. the fact of the matter is, my first government job was a public school teacher. we in our society depend upon government workers to keep us secure and that s
what was her focus when they were grappling with these issues because we knew she didn t jump into it. she didn t want to play in the 2010 midterms as well. this speech last night i thought really melded the personal side and the policy side. the politics and the re-election argument. she did a bunch of things ann romney, for all of that speech was a fine speech, but she did a bunch of things ann romney didn t do. one of those things was to show and not just tell, not just assert things about barack obama, assert things about herself, but tell stories. the story of her father, m.s. stricken, struggling to get up in the morning, struggling up and down the stairs, incredibly vivid anecdote that was very moving to people. she also made policy arguments that ann romney never made on behalf of her husband so she spoke directly to women on the question of women having the right to control their own health decisions. those are things that expanded the speech beyond merely being a supportive
got it through. he has still not got it through. well, he s not the king. he s the president. he gets to act as a president under this. these agents are the front-line agents that have to make the decision as to the initial pickup. that is whether there has been a legal violation. it s up to those who enforce the laws. whatever the policy is, whether you like the policy or not there are good policy arguments both ways. the fact is it was not passed by congress. we are a government of the law. the president doesn t make much secondly, i would point him to the united states supreme court. the lesser of an authority it is really unchallengeable. something that is there, something that is it had been exercised by other presidents. it absolutely has.
ideas. it means romney/ryan can run on principles and provide some real direction and vision for the republican party. and probably lose. now, this goes back to what we were talking about, consternation, although i believe that s more than consternation. that s just pure pessimism. and a really interesting analysis in politico yesterday, saying many observers believe romney must make the ryan selection less about specific policy arguments and more of a general statement about his own values, about his own seriousness, self-confidence and willingness to embrace political risk to solve big problems. not about political sort of machinery of politics but about the chemistry of a candidate. but this is a presidential campaign. the democrats are already playing really dirty. you are giving them so much material. there are so many ryan budgets. there s not just one. there s three or four. they re all in black and white and that was fine when the republicans were in the minority and he s jus